Turkey and the internet
Of tweets and twits
How government censorship backfired
Mar 29th 2014 | ISTANBUL | From the print edition
THE beleaguered Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, must be scared. Why else, many Turks ask, would a court on March 20th have blocked access to Twitter? Mr Erdogan vowed to “wipe out” the social-media site “no matter what the rest of the world has to say about it”. Douglas Frantz, an American State Department official, likened the move to “21st-century book-burning”. Neelie Kroes, the European digital commissioner, called it “cowardly”.
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